they're ecstatic, but i did note to some that just a few weeks ago we booed this man every time he touched a basketball because he wasn't ours. >> let's talk about the impact on lebron. this is a guy who's had no significant scandals throughout his career, but still the decision created a lot of controversy, made him into an nba villain, made him very polarizing, made him appear very selfish for a lot of people. i was not one of those people, but that was a widely held perspective on him. this move, going home, going to the underdog city of cleveland, suddenly washes that away, ab solves him, makes him the good guy once again. >> you know, the bottom line is, it's still in the back of people's minds. there's no doubt he was allowed to leave, but the way he did it was horrific. many of us still feel he quit in game five of the playoffs against the celtics. but by coming back -- but something else we have to mention. he's mentioning cleveland, northeast ohio. for the longest time, it was only his hometown of akron.

still, he's mentioning akron, but he's giving accolades, praise, and love to the city of cleveland, saying, quote/unquote, he would have only left miami for cleveland. that doesn't go unnoticed here. >> i think one of the really cool things, too, is the contrast between sort of the glitzy life of miami and going back to the roots. it's a beautiful story. it's a sentimental story. certainly lebron is talking about how getting back to the roots and being able to hopefully win a championship with his hometown team was really at the heart of this. but was this also a business decision? did those sort of considerations play into this as well? >> there is no doubt it's business on both sides. i would say it's business more for dan gilbert and the cavaliers and the city of cleveland than b even lebron. lebron would have been wealthy beyond his means, which i don't begrudge him at all, as the world's greatest basketball player. but people with businesses in the city 40 miles out said that there was an effect as soon as he left, people coming in to

watch cavaliers games and enjoy. yes, a lot of business went into this decision. >> speaking of winning a championship, will cleveland now automatically be the favorite to win the east? i know there was speculation when he http:wanted to go back cleveland, vegas odds shot up. >> there's no doubt. just coming out a little while ago, the cleveland cavaliers are the early favorites to win the eastern conference. >> what happens then now to carmelo anthony at the knicks? everyone speculating where he's going to go. does he go to miami now? >> there's a possibility. miami actually has to worry about what they're going to do with their roster. i still feel that what phil jackson has promised, even though he was kind of shoving carmelo out like george karl did in denver to a degree, it's a big decision. can carmelo step into lebron's shoes and continue success in miami? i'm not quite sure. >> can anyone step into lebron's shoes? >> exactly.

>> no, it's impossible. >> so for those of us who haven't been paying as close attention to the nba, what is the rest of the cleveland team look like? what does lebron have there in terms of teammates to work with and to build something hopefully eventually a championship team with? >> well, number one, he asks for four players to be kept on the roster as of now. kyree irving just signed the max. and tristan thompson. i can guarantee you the cavaliers are not done. there will be another major player or two joining this team. could be ray allen. could be kevin love. >> and how much of a say -- you said that lebron requested for those four players to remain on the roster, how much of a say is he going to have in selecting who else comes and who goes and in the direction of the team? >> i know for a fact the team will ask him his thoughts. i mentioned waders to you.

he's one of the players being bantered about that minnesota would like. i'm certain the cavaliers will speak with lebron and say, hey, this is a piece to get another piece what are your thoughts on this? can you say the inmates are running the asylum to an effect in the nba? they certainly are. >> obviously the greatest player on the team, greater player in the game should have some impact in the decision making process. but i was in the quicken loans arena about 2 1/2, 3 years ago for an interview, and i noticed there was no lebron imagery anywhere. i asked one of the employees, and he said, there's only one picture left in the building, and that is back behind closed door where is only employees can go. so this organization was so angry that they scrubbed lebron out of their history, and now they're willing to welcome -- more than willing, excited, to welcome him back. the fan base did the same thing. we saw people burning lebron jerseys in the streets. now they're like, we love you, all is forgiven. >> well, i'll note this to you.

the way he left was abhorrent. not even calling dan gilbert, having one of his guys call dan gilbert. a lot of people feel he quit in game five of the series against boston. his name should have been eradicated from the journals of quicken loans arena. people talked about his number being retired there if he didn't come back. absolutely not. but talking to people on the streets once again, they say now we have a chance to win again. we'd sell our souls for that. many feel they did. >> and it's more than basketball, isn't it? all those businesses around the quicken loans arena that are going to get an uptick in business because more people are excited to come to the games, they're going to sell out 41 games, plus whatever they go in the playoffs, obviously. this has a major impact, beyond winning and losing games. but economic impact for the city of cleveland. >> it's huge. as being one of lebron's greatest detrack tors about not wanting him back at first, my thoughts were this. i'm a small cog of what happens. i'm from cleveland. but the bottom line is, if it's part of revitalization of a

great, great city with great, great people. republican national convention is coming here. then i'm all for it. yes, indeed, he's an integral part of the city bouncing back. >> i love cleveland. i used to live not too far from there on the ohio side of the border with pennsylvania. i think it be hard to understand just how much a move like this can mean for a region that has suffered economically over the past decades, has had trouble getting things in gear in the modern economy, seeing towns suffering from that lack of jobs and lack of employment. this is a huge boost. and not just in terms of the economic numbers. it's a huge boost in terms of lebron james saying, you know, what i saw miami, it was great, i did what i wanted to do there, but where i really want to be is back home in northeast ohio. i think that sort of moral boost is as important as anything else. >> you know, knowing where you're from, sometimes the worst

enemy of cleveland people, cleveland people. because we down play things that are going on with the health care in the city, with the cleveland clinic and inner city hoptss, the world class art museum and symphony. it's given us a little shot in the arm once again to be proud of this great city. >> do you think the outcome would have been different had miami actually won the championship this year? >> you know, i don't. i'll tell you why. all of the sudden now he has three championships in miami, and it's like, hey, pat you on the back. thank you for the three. you can go if you want to go. see, that was something too. the first time around in cleveland, he had promised a championship. i know words are idle. we all say things that may be embellished at times, but the bottom line is, had he won one in cleveland, we would have understood more about him leaving. there were unfulfilled promises. now people are saying, you know what, our mantra, unfinished business. i like that. >> say what you will about

lebron's part in the decision, but dan gilbert, the cavaliers owner, did not come out looking good out of that situation. his letter calling lebron a coward and other such things really rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. he looked like a really bad guy in that situation. in these last four years where the dream of lebron returning to cleveland did burn in the heart of cleveland fans, did you think that perhaps it was dan gilbert who might block this thing in the end? >> no, not at all. in fact, i disagree with you wholeheartedly that had not lebron left the way he left, dan wrote that letter as one of us. he wrote a letter as we would write it. and for the last four years, people abhorred lebron james. we booed him, vilified him just a month ago during the playoffs. some people have said to me s dan going to apologize to lebron? if anything, lebron owed us an apolo apology. i believe we got it today. >> you know, mark, the executive

producer of "the cycle" times stays, there's what you do and how you do it, which is an interesting maxim to consider when you look at lebron, how he's doing this, this time with what we might call a classy or calm, written piece addressing everyone. walk us through the contrast between that and the way it went down with a very self-involved press conference, tv event last time. >> well, the last time around, we knew the decision was coming. there was a dog and pony show, my friend, that everybody was lined up 20 deep on the sidewalks. we hung banners from bridges from akron to downtown cleveland saying this is your home, stay home. the thing that got us, too, and i say us, the people of cleveland, the cleveland c cavaliers organization, it came out, this is pretty much a done deal. perhaps collusion during the olympics with bosh and wade. it was dog and pony. supposedly the deciding factor

was pat riley. now pretty much coming clean. so the first time was ugly. it was nasty. definitely people that suggested this lebron were way off base. glad he didn't listen this time. >> yeah, interesting perspective. stay with us. we're going to bring in chris winningham in miami where lebron is leaving. we have a perspective here now from both places. tell us the mood and your thoughts he s here from miami. >> the interesting thing is that as surprising as sports fandom can be, extreme, violent, the sense i'm getting from our phone callers at our station an the things i'm reading from the miami heat fans i follow on twitter, it's gratitude. the idea we rented him for the most part, miami rented him. he's not really ours and he gave us two championships. as fun of a sports era you can

possibly have over a four-year period. >> interesting. >> that's a valuable perspective, chris. i wonder your personal feelings about this, talking to miami fans now and for years. you can't really be mad about a guy going home, can you? >> no, not whatsoever. i mean, miami had some good luck here because they have a local guy, somebody who's taken discounts three times during his career. miami has been the beneficiary of that. if you're looking at the choice that lebron had, it's the only thing that was in cleveland's favor. it was that he was going home. he wrote that in the piece today. it wasn't about the roster. he had the issues with the ownership that we thought might get in the way, but in the end, him wanting to go home trumped all. that's the reason why he's now a cleveland cavalier. >> now there's talk of carmelo anthony potentially going to miami now. can he fill lebron's shoes? what will the future of the

miami team look like, do you think? >> it's actually -- one of the interesting things about this is that it asks more questions than it answers. yes, now the miami heat have closure on what lebron is going to do. now every free agent on the market is something that the miami heat are not going to have to discuss. you mentioned carmelo. i think probably a little bit too late in the process. he's already taken meetings. he's already narrowed it down to chicago and the new york knicks, his home team. i think now the heat have got to turn to what do they do with dwyane wade? they have to turn to the other free agents on the market and whether they want to go for it this year, whether it's going to be a long-term rebuilding plan. they basically have a skeleton of a roster. they only have three or four players under contract. so now pat riley, the president, has carte blanche to do whatever it is he'd like. >> it's one big decision that's going to affect a lot more. chris and mark, thank you both for giving us such good reporting from your respective cities. coming up, a top white house official heads for the border as

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the president may not have visited the border while he was in texas this week, but today as homeland security chief did. jay johnson toured a border patrol training facility in new mexico that now houses 700 undocumented immigrants waiting for either deportation or a chance to seek asylum. this particular facility is for children who crossed with other family members, not for unaccompanied minors traveling by themself. the white house puts the cost of

each bed at close to $1,000, a cost that would be offset by the president's emergency request if congress decides to pass it. most republicans on the hill say for one that the $3.7 billion price tag is too high and secondly, that it doesn't do anything to speed up the deportation process. one of the so-called death trains packed with potential immigrants hoping to cross the border derailed in mexico, leaving 1300 people stranded in the desert heat. nbc's stephanie gosk pushed further south into guatemala where entire outposts are popping up to cater to potential immigran immigrants. >> reporter: on the street, we see a negotiation taking place, four hondurans, two of them only teenagers, strike a deal with the man in the white hat. our producer overheard the conversation. this is a trip for men, he told them, with no guarantees we leave on saturday. the u.s. government may be trying to stem the tide of this migration, but there is nothing being done to stop it here.

>> all right. let's get more into the big political story of the week and likely weeks to come with josh barro, msnbc contributor and domestic correspondent for "the new york times" as well as our barbecue correspondent. always great to have you at the table. republicans really upset right now with how the president is handling this. and some republicans upset in general with president obama's entire presidency. we saw a very angry boehner yesterday saying, quote, he's been president for five years, when is he going to take respondent for this? well, washington post actually stepped in with a reality check, pointing out five instances in his presidency where he has taken responsibility. take a look. >> i love these folks who helped get us in this mess and suddenly say, well, this is obama's economy. that's fine. give it to me. i want the responsibility. >> in case anybody wonders, in any reporting, in case you're

wondering who's responsible, i take responsibility. >> i take responsibility for that. >> i'm the president. and i'm always responsible. >> i take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed asap. >> josh, is this another instance where the president needs to take responsibility? >> well, i think he's doing so. i think this request that he's put to congress to take steps to deal with this influx of children, i think, is an example of that. i think, you know, the republicans in congress are going to complain because that's what happens when the president does things, but i think that we will see an agreement through congress about this, maybe not exactly the form the president's put out, but with supplemental funds with this. the reason is it needs to be done. this congress acts when it absolutely must and something absolutely must be done to deal with this influx of children. the other thing is that i think politically for republicans, this isn't a situation where they need to vote against the president's funding request in order to be on strong political ground. they can still vote for it and complain about the fact that the

president put them in a position where they needed to vote for it. they can say the president created this mess through his inattention or whatnot, and this is what we have to do now and we'll hold him accountable for that. they can still do that while actually voting for the money to deal with the situation. >> abby brings up john boehner. the detail of john boehner's lawsuit against the president are out, and it's going to center around obama delaying the employer mandate for obamacare. not immigration, but the employer mandate. we get it. you really, really hate obamacare. this, even though the percentage of uninsured folks is way down, 9.5 million fewer people are uninsured now. 74% of newly insured republicans say they like their plan. so even republicans who get involved in this thing are very happy with what they're getting. and even eric ericsson, redstate doing, says this is a political stunt, wasting taxpayer dollars. so there seems to be land mines all over the place for this lawsuit plan. why is he doing it?

>> it also puts republicans in a very funny position. the employer mandate was unpopular. this is a rule that imposes a fine on companies if they don't provide insurance. republicans have been saying this is going to kill jobs, companies won't hire low-wage workers because they will not want to pay the fine associated with not providing them insurance. >> but now they're upset he didn't do it sooner. >> so republicans will be in court demanding the government levy fines against employers. i still think john boehner is doing this because he felt that he needed to do something to show that he was standing up to the, quote, lawlessness of the president and the choice of this white house to go around congress when it can't get the legislative actions that it would like to see through congress. i think it's something he can do without doing what more extreme people in his party would like to do, such as impeach the president. >> he's the moderate version, right. i think he's also scared after seeing what happened to eric cantor. >> this serves a useful political purpose. i think it's likely the lawsuit will get tossed for lack of standing. it really only needs to get him

through the midterms. yes, it's a dubious strategy, but it's one that john boehner might not have to live with forever. >> i have mixed feelings about this lawsuit. >> do you? you're conflicted? >> i'm conflicted. on the one hand, it's so dumb for the reasons you just explained. it has them arguing for things they're against. they're now for what they were once not for. it's stupid. my other feeling is in its narrowness and lack of ambition and sort of running out of gas sadness, it does reveal a certain truth about the pathetic state of this house republican caucus led by a moderately weakened john boehner. and that is we have a lot of speeches and a lot of talk radio hours about this lawless president over here in immigration, over here with minimum wage contractors, over here with recess appointments. there was a lot of brainsto brainstorming. i feel like what they came back to was, we want obamacare to be enacted faster. >> there's not a lot directly

for congress to do about this stuff. i know the white house was slapped back on the recess appointments by the supreme court in recent weeks. it was also slapped back to a small extent on the epa regulations on carbon. the court said they couldn't do quite as much as they were going to do. the new rules will be able to get at 83% of carbon emissions before the supreme court action was trying to get at 86%. >> i love it when you talk like this. >> the critique republicans has been raising has not been entirely wrong. >> the reasonable wing. >> right. but it's not necessarily congress itself that ought to be in the position of bringing these lawsuits and trying to defend against overreach by the executive branch. so i think boehner has seized on this both as an actual substantive weakness of the administration where they have overstepped their bounds in certain places and a political issue that has a lot of currency with his base. this was the limited thing he was able to do to hitch himself to that bandwagon. >> yeah, i find it sort of pathetic. to ari's point, underscores how

lacking in direction the republican caucus is. but josh, you were saying earlier that this congress does things only when they absolutely must do them. one of those things that they absolutely must do is to replenish the highway trust fund. that does useful things like build and refurbish highways. essentially, the deal here is we haven't raised the gas tax, so that's a problem. then also cars are more fuel efficient, so that's a problem. so we're getting less money into this trust fund. looks like they've hammered out a compromise, but i understand from a piece you're working out that's coming out tomorrow, you're not too impressed with that they've come up with. >> so they're, working on a compromise that they did in a dumb manner in 2012. the gas tack hasn't been raised for 21 years. they keep having to search under the couch cushions. so this thing they do, when you have companies that provide pension plans, congress makes this change where they let them underfund those plans. those companies therefore say they're more profitable because

their pensions got less expensive. so that means they pay more corporate tax. you collect that little bit of extra corporate tax, put it in the highway trust fund. it buys you a few more months. of course, eventually later those companies will have to put that money in their pension funds, so they'll pay less tax in the future, but congress only looks at this over ten years. it's a total gimmick. they may go back and do that again just like they did in 2012 instead of finding a permanent fix. >> josh barro, great having you. much more ahead here in "the cycle," including the latest out of tel aviv where the human and political toll is growing. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours.

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strip is mounting. israeli and palestinian attacks continue to spread bloodshed across the region today. this all started when the bodies of those three israeli teenagers, including one american citizen, were discovered a few weeks ago. the alleged revenge killing of a palestinian teen a few days later sparked the worst violence that we've seen in years.

israel claims it's bombed 1100 hamas targets, one every five minutes. the palestinians claim those attacks have kill around 100 people since tuesday, including many women and children. for their part, the palestinians have launched 170 rockets from gaza in the past day alone. dozens of those have been intercepted by israel's so-called iron shield. president obama has called israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to offer in assisting peace talks. martin fletcher is there in the middle of the conflict. martin, tell us what's going on. >> reporter: hi, krystal. well, as you mentioned, the palestinian casualties reached the 100 mark today. at least 101 palestinians have been killed now in the last four days of israel's attack on gaza. the israelis say they're doing their best, though, to limit civilian casualties. they do that by what they call knock on the roof policy.

that means when they're going to attack a house, first of all, they hit it with a bomb with no explosive. it's a warning. one-minute warning. then one minute later they hit with a fuller force of a rocket with explosive blowing it up. the reason they're attacking those houses, they say, is that they either house militant leaders or it's their controlled operation center or rockets are hidden there. all these reasons make it so difficult to fight in a civilian area. of course, including civilian casualties. those civilian casualties put pressure on israel. so today prime minister netanyahu has been speaking with world leaders, president obama, the german leader angela merkel, all of whom are trying to persuade netanyahu. on the one happened, they're giving him support saying, yes, of course, israel has the right to defend itself. but they're trying to keep israel from launching a ground invasion. netanyahu went on tv today saying no international pressure will stop israel from doing what it needs to do to stop the

palestinians, the hamas militants in gaza. he said, we'll do what we need to do. as for a ground invasion, netanyahu said all options are open. israel has called up about 20,000 reserves to join the regular army. they're all massing on the border with gaza, ready for a ground invasion. the army offices say they're ready to go, and all they're waiting for is the order. you'd think with this pressure that hamas may in gaza limit the rocket attacks. at least that's certainly what israel hopes. far from it. they're increasing them, about 70 rocket attacks today. hamas upped the ante today. they issued a statement warning foreign airlines from using israel's international airport in tel aviv. they warned the international airlines to stay away, otherwise we may harm your passengers and your aircraft. we don't take responsibility. hamas said you have to blame israel for bombing our cities. but israel says they're going to continue their assault as long as it takes until they're able to stop those rockets from hitting israeli citizens. krystal? >> all right.

martin fletcher in tel aviv. thank you for that report. turning now from back here in washington to a piece in politico magazine this month that really got me thinking. it's called "the princess effect." it examines how women's magazines intending to celebrate powerful women often wind up demeaning them instead. so our well-meaning media outlets only perpetuating age-old stereo types? that's the question asked by "politico" magazine contributor sarah ken zer, who wrote the people. i loved the piece. it was really very thought provoking. you criticize the fact these magazines tepnd to focus on fashion, beauty, putting women to these stereotypical boxes, asking them for fitness advice. but i will say, there is this one small part of me that's like, yeah, but i do want to know how michelle obama gets her amazing arms. >> yeah, i mean, i think some of the problem is not just that these issues are covered in fashion or women's magazines where you might expect them to been but that this kind of coverage permeates into outlets

like "the new york times" or "the washington post" where you wouldn't, where you're getting descriptions of female politicians' dress sizes, how they do their hair, of their exercise tips. it becomes this kind of standard thing that's included. so i would ask, if you're reading these types of pieces anywhere, to look at it as if, one, what would it be like if it was written by a man? two, what purpose do these details serve? if somebody is having a serious political discussion about their ideas, what does it bring to it, you know, to put in workout tips? is anybody really reading this and going, well, where's the details about her highlights? where's the detail about her exercise routine? >> you're mentioning it's not just magazines, but "the new york times." you cite exactly that. coverage of condy rice, who is a size six, but occasionally jumps to anning eight who is impeccably dressed, usually with

an impeccable hem line. >> i was trying to give an example, kind of put into the reader's mind what it might have been like if somebody else from the bush administration had been portrayed in the way condoleezza rice was early on. that's what happens. of course, you do see superficial coverage of male politicians, but not to the extent for women and not to the extent it derails the discussion of their ideas and policy initiatives and what they hope to do. >> well, the fact of the matter is, men and women bring different qualities to any given job. that's a great thing. that should be highlighted. i think we should talk more about that, but are we ever going to get to a point where women don't have to do anything other than just be good at their job to actually prove themself? >> yeah, i mean, you say men and women do different things. i think one of the most damaging parts of this coverage is that women are not seen as individuals. women are seen as doing women-kind of things.

you're either this evil maneuverer, or you're this sort of flakey -- >> you're too soft. >> right, yeah. you're too soft. you know, you're kind of a confidant, diminutive. and you don't get to be who you are, which is usually a very complicated person. i think men are allowed that. all politics is image making. of course, there's always going some kind of caricature portrayed. but the options for caricatures of women are narrow and often limited by discussions of their physical appearance. >> few people have dealt with this as much, sarah, as hillary clinton, who's dealing with, oh, maybe she's too old, maybe her becoming a grandmother will make her not want to run for president. you'd never say that about a man. >> right, yeah. hillary is a good example of this. i think what's coming up in 2016 is a retread of what we've seen over the past 22 years. with hillary, it's aly different because it's been discussed ad nauseam. i think they've run out of things to say. regardless what your position is on hillary, whether you like her

or not, i think that what's relevant should be her policies, her ideas, and what she hopes to accomplish if she does run for president. >> sadly, i'm sure her pantsuits and hair styles will continue to be a source of much fascination. sarah, fascinating article. thank you so much. still to come, new technology that ensures you don't miss a beat, but are you missing something much more important in the process? at every ford dealership, you'll find the works! it's a complete checkup of the services your vehicle needs.

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you download that into your computer, and, poof, every 30 seconds of every day of your life lives on forever. "mechanics" magazine used the clip for an entire week. the senior editor is here to give us the results, wearing it right now. are you filling us? >> i am not, actually. no. >> so most of my friends have these devices. my husband does. tracking every step you take in the day. the hours that you sleep. my concern is i don't want to not live my life. i feel like i'll get so addicted to these things i just won't live. convince me otherwise. convince me as to why i should monitor my every day, all my moves. >> it's funny. this whole phenomenon, this trend of tracking everything you do, whether it's keeping a journal entry on an app or, you know, even with the fitbit or the new jawbone, tracking your fitness. it's called the quantified self. that's the buzz word for it or buzz phrase. there is some concern about whether you become too obsessed with it. at the same time, it's very helpful, whether it's recording how many calories you're eating,

knowing how many steps you took. we have one editor keeping track of her sleep patterns. we were looking at it the other day. she could tell how restless she was at night, and she's trying to make certain adjustments to get a better night's sleep. it's not entirely a bad thing. >> i'm on the other side. i think it's really cool. the thing i think about is i have two little children, 1-year-old and of-year-old. i would love to have something that would be capturing their life as i'm around them all the time. do you think a lot of parents will get into this technology? >> i definitely think they could. you know, the writer of the story who wore it for an entire week, every waking minute that he was up he had this on. so it takes a photo every 30 seconds. what he said was that there are a lot of times that he would go back through his photo stream on his phone, on the app that comes with it, and he would end up finding a lot of images that he missed. you know, a day at the park with friends, you know, just going out to a concert at night. he was living in the experience so much that he missed these little tiny things.

he definitely benefitted from it. when you're raising a kid and all those moments you want to treasure, i could definitely see that becoming beneficial. >> the author writes a really nice, interesting article at the end. he says, maybe the imperfection of memory is as much a blessing as a curse. and i think there's something to that. the joy perhaps is in the cure rated effect, the one or two great photographs rather than this wide net approach where i photographed my entire day. >> exactly. you can pick up your phone right now and look at all the images you snapped just to take a cool instagram. a lot of this just ends up being noise. there is something to that. i think one result he found, probably the biggest takeaway, was he varied his every day patterns because he started seeing that, you know, he was taking this same way to work every day. he was doing the same -- sitting in front of his computer all day. he started changes his patterns. maybe that was really beneficial. maybe in the end, if you just take a moment of self-reflection and think about that anyway, you

can probably do that without having to wear a clip that might freak people out possibly. >> ultimately just a balance. i love that video of beauon say when she's on the stage and grabs the phone and say, live in the moment a little bit. very cool advice. thank you so much for joining us and telling us more about it. hopefully we'll see you again soon. coming up next from logging your life to answering some of life's biggest questions, discoveries wildly popular mythbusters are back, and they're busting their way on to "the cycle." next. if i can impart one lesson to a

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candy gram! >> here we go again. >> "mythbusters" is back doing it again. the discovery channel's hit series has returned for its 12th season, continuing to test the limits of what we all accept as fact. they have tested 946 myths. they have done 2,760 experiments and have gotten five well-deserved emmy nominations. here's what you can expect this go around. whether some common household objects can save you from an explosion, it's possible to play ten anyone on the wing of an airplane, and how about classic big-screen crime scenes. could they really happen without hollywood magic? new episodes air each thursday

night at 9:00, 8:00 central on discovery. we're thrilled to have the hosts with us this afternoon. kerry, i start with you. what i love about the show, and it's addictive, you start to watch one, you can't not watch them over and over. it makes science fun and relatable, not like it was back in high school. >> yeah, i think that's what we like about it as well. i think we were on the show for about three years before we realized we were actually doing science. we were just having so much fun. >> and we never really set out to be a science show. you know, from the get go, we were like, how are we going to make this show exciting, entertaining, and by default, people learn? so we trick them into learning. >> kerry, i'll start with you. in all the years this has been going on, what has been your favorite myth that has either been proven or debunked? >> it's always whatever myth i'm working on at the time because we really dive into it. the premiere we had last night

had a garbage truck explosion that turned out to be my new very favorite explosion ever because we were in a quarry and we just loaded up what seemed like a little bit of into a garbage truck and watched it disappear. we have so many amazing moments like that. it's hard to choose just one. >> you look like you know. >> you know, my favorite moment on "mythbusters" always is when we go into an experiment thug we know the outcome of the myth and we're surprised by the complete opposite. for example, one time we were testing a bull in a china shop, that saying. he's like a bull in a china shop. totally clumsy. we had bulls, put them in a fake china shop we created, and the bulls were so aware of themselves that they didn't knock over a single shelf. >> graceful, agile. >> we were standing there going, oh, my god, we were so wrong. >> we actually broke more dishes when we went shopping with this

guy than the bulls did. so now we say tory in a china shop. >> that was one of my favorite experiments that you guys ever did. one of the things you did for this season is you tested you t hollywood movie thing of if a bomb comes into your possession, throw it under the bed, and that will protect you. let's look at a little of that. >> i think we might have found something that's actually bomb proof. look, first one didn't burst. >> the shrapnel catchers caught a gentle rain of mattress stuffing. >> that was amazing, i thought for sure putting a bomb under the bed wouldn't work but it is actually safer than you think. >> i was surprised, too. >> think about how many times you find yourself in your bedroom with a bomb. >> right, that happens all the time. >> and that's one of those moments we were thinking oh, this isn't going to work and it actually could save your life.

>> my favorite moment from awhile back is when you were trying to test whether tomato juice gets out the skunk smell. you had a hard time getting the skunk to spray you. >> trying to get those little animals to behave on camera, it is okay, and action, spray, and they wouldn't. >> i seem to remember being locked in a bathroom. anyway, do you get a lot of outrage mail from fans upset that you went about it the wrong way, are you busting a myth they don't think should have been busted? >> mostly it is e-mail now. we have a very active message board. >> no, they tell us we get it right every time! ha-ha-ha! >> the cool thing about the show, we are very interactive with the audience, if they say we did it wrong and give us a better idea, we will go back and test it. >> i bet the brainstorm room is fun. >> sometimes it is like for this

experiment we need five pig stomachs. okay. that's not your normal list of things to get. >> are you going to run out of myths to bust, you have done 946 so far. do you keep coming up with ideas? >> as long as the internet exists, we will have plenty of misinformation to work with. >> and as long as people believe in ridiculous stories, i think we're going to be in business. >> sounds like the best job ever, tory. >> it is one of the best jobs ever. it is totally fun. >> you have so much fun with it. we love it. we hope you have a great season. tory, kerry, thanks for being here. still to come, abby is putting on her chef's hat. come back, see what she's cooked up next.

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over the weekend i went to see the movie "chef." if you haven't seen it, it is an incredible film about finding your true passion in life, and just going for it, not being afraid to fail, even when it feels like the world is against you. john favro plays a chef that's blindsided when a well known food blogger writes a review about his cooking. it goes viral and he goes nuts and decides it is a good idea to approach the blogger the next time he visits the restaurant. here is how it went. >> to the back of the house. >> i just want to say one thing. >> stop it for a second. i have been waiting to talk to this [bleep] for a long time. you don't do anything, what do you do, you sit and you eat and

vomit those words back? to make people laugh. you know how hard i worked for this [bleep]? do you know how hard my whole staff works? >> as the story goes, after that episode, it was pretty much over for him, but hitting rock bottom inspired him to do something he never thought he would do. favro knew he loved to cook, knew he was good at it, didn't need someone over his shoulder telling him what to do. with no money in the bank and no one rooting for his success, he opens a food truck. what did he have to lose? and as any movie ends, he is happier than he was before everything fell apart. as you walk out of the theater, you can't help about finding your own passion. you tell yourself you're going to do the same thing. then reality sets in and you go back to dreaming about what could be. that's the main take away. but there's something else i took from this film that's not necessarily as obvious. the sad reality that we have become a society so willing to tear each other down. i say this humbly as a tv host

often guilty of criticizing myself. there are times to critique. but somewhere in the new way of bloggers, tweeters, never ending new cycles, we let opinions rule the world. on one end, it is great, everyone has a voice. bloggers and tweeters have a louder voice. and more times than not it is about tearing everybody down. i saw it on the campaign trail. there was never anything positive. think about when the president nominates someone to his cabinet. within minutes, articles pop up about why that person may not be good enough or make it through the process. it is never about why they may be good. chris christie was dragged through the mud over bridge gate. some criticism was necessary, but he is talked about like he should have been impeached. he hasn't been charged for anything. for hillary clinton, if she decides to run, by 2016 she will stripped of any dignity if she has any left. this is politics, this is the

big leagues, it doesn't mean we have to ruin people's lives. sadly this happens in every industry. while the nasty blogger in the film "chef quote motivated him to change his life for the better, that's not reality." the reality is lives are ruined every day because of the culture. now with alex wagner starts now. do as i say, not as i say. house republicans take a bad philosophy and make it even worse. it is friday, july 11th, and this is "now." john boehner, you're better than this. >> they're suing him. >> they actually plan to sue me. >> i think it is a very revealing moment from speaker boehner. >> his lawsuit will focus on changes the president has made to the health care law. >> now he's being sued because he did something with the affordable care act that they voted more than 50 times to

repeal. >> cheap shot, below the belt behavior. >> talk bougt suing the president which is a prelude to impeaching him. >> really? >> the president once more put the blame on congress. >> i'm the guy doing my job, you must be the other guy. >> i think this is a low point for boehner and obama working together. so what's john boehner's plan? >> it is about putting political points on the board. >> i think he gains nothing. >> come on, speaker boehner, enough with the stunts. >> it is a freaky friday john boehner edition. the house speaker levees a lawsuit against the president for not only doing his job but doing what house republicans wanted him to do. last night, they released a draft resolution saying the lawsuit against the president will focus on changes to the patient proct